Vassilis Antonakos / Βασίλης Αντωνάκος, 1980 | Abstract painter

Greek artist🎨 Βασίλης Αντωνάκος was born in Athens. Art had always been an alternative way to express himself even since he was a child.

He attended the Vakalo Art and Design College and then he continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.

Mostly being a self-taught artist with a wide range of work in painting, sculpting and stage design. His first solo exhibition -titled "Faces"- took place in 2013 in Red Dot in Athens.

Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.

After studying art, publishes as a freelance children’s books for Italy and abroad. occasionally also works in advertising.

Daria Petrilli’s digital artworks hearken back to the countryside retreats described by Flaubert and Tolstoy. She specializes in depicting pallid, Victorian beauties with curled hair and wasp waists.

Dick Pieters, 1941 | Fantastic Realism painter

"In life everything seems to be very complicated untill you reach the big exploration that the truth lies in simplicity, the obvious, like nature, the sound, the love. And likewise in my painting".

Dick Pieters worked eighteen months on this portrait of his wife Corrie and himself in a boat on a river. If you stand close to the painting, you can see that it has been painted dot by dot, with almost scientific precision.

Only when you stand further away will the whole image reveal itself. Pieters applied layer after layer (sometimes as much as eight layers) to achieve this impressive effect.

Each layer had to dry first before the next could be applied. Pieters painted the simple moments of happiness.

'Searching all your life for the deepest sources and then discovering that the truth lies in simple things, in the obvious, such as nature, sound, love…,' is how the artist explained his development.

Paris painting | Serie 2

Antoine Blanchard* [French painter*, 1910-1988]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Venus Victorious, 1914-1916 | Art in Detail

Vénus victorieuse /Venus Victorious - The figure of Venus in this sculpture is based on the image of the goddess in a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*, 'The Judgement of Paris'.

In Greek myth Aphrodite (known to the Romans as Venus) competed for the prize of a golden apple, which she won by promising Paris that he could marry Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world.